Tagged: copyright

Oh, dear, major labels - don't you realise that copyright theft is a SERIOUS CRIME? Do we need to send Britney Spears over to remind you that illegally streaming a football game at a VEVO party is no different from stealing a CD from a store? Tut. Tut. Tut. TechCrunch's Jason Kincaid saw ESPN streaming from an unlicensed feed: My hunch is that the team hooked up a computer to the TVs throughout the venue so that they could accomplish this synchronized star-caressing — then, rather than rework their entire setup just [...]

What do you do when Bono and U2 grimly refuse you the rights to use a song, forcing you to pull out of a film festival? This: Moral: There is always a way round the self-importance of Bono. [Thanks to Michael M for the tip] -- Visit No Rock & Roll Fun to comment, complain and kvetch

Por Federico Poore Ante todo, una breve declaración de principios. Tanto la ley como nosotros deberíamos esforzarnos más por distinguir entre compartir música y películas, por un lado, y lucrar con el filesharing , por otro. Compartir películas y discos, en tanto no persiga el lucro, debería estar despenalizado . Punto. El bien común por encima del derecho de propiedad. No es "lo mismo" un pibe que comparte una película en BitComet que el videoclub que alquila películas truchas: este último está violando la ley. Este parece ser el caso de [...]

I suspect the RIAA will be secretly delighted at having been included on Anonymous' attacks on various copyright industry sites; they've been so long eclipsed by the MPAA in the 'trying to shore up a business model that no longer exists' lobbying that they'll just be delighted anyone bothered to take them down. I'm picturing the RIAA trying to look cross while thinking "oh, this is like the good old days when our site was booted offline every three or four days. We've still got it..." On a more serious note, the loss of [...]

. No big deal.. Swizz Beatz was the CEO of MegaUpload.. Yep. Dude was the CEO of MegaUpload. Feds shut them down yesterday. MegaUpload is no more. "Super producer Swizz Beatz is in hot water with Universal Music Group over the promotion of his website Megaupload.com, according to reports that resurfaced today. As CEO of the online storage and file-sharing site, Beatz asked buddies Diddy, Kanye and Will.i.am to spread the buzz in a promotional video, the "Megaupload [...]

It doesn't appear to be connected to yesterday's SOPA protests , but this is pretty significant anyway : The Federal Bureau of Investigation moved against a group of suspected online pirates Thursday, targeting the popular file-sharing website megaupload.com a day after Washington lawmakers were besieged by complaints about legislation designed to crack down on the online sharing of pirated copies of music, movies and other material, people familiar with the matter said. Investigators said there was no connection between arrests in their two-year investigation and the political firestorm that erupted this [...]

Like a gang-bang porn, sometimes 4 artists come together to create something incredibly beautiful. When I heard that Black Numbers was releasing a 4 way split between Grey Area, The Reveling, The Copyrights, and Luther, the word anticipation would be an understatement. Shit, I would have picked this up for the two Grey Area tracks alone even if the rest of the songs were flatulence as

• Grey Area - Lucky

As part of the internet sort of went dark yesterday ("I can turn something called javascript off to see Wikipedia. What's javescript, thought? I know, I'll check Wikipe... nooooo...") Tom Dickins made his own protest , sending an open letter to remind Congress that the copyright industry doesn't actually speak for everyone who makes things: This is the economic reality of being a musician in the 21st century. The people who can and want to spend money on your music, will. The people who either can't or won't spend the cash will ALSO support you! They will [...]

Just had an enjoyable first run with this new 4-Way split release featuring The Copyrights, Grey Area, The Reveling and Luther. The release follows up The Copyrights' 2011 album, North Sentinel Island , on Red Scare. This is also the follow up to Grey Area's split 73 with Go Rydell, Luther's Siblings & Sevens 123 and The Reveling's Tributaries album. listen: The Copyrights: "The New Frontier" Grey Area: "Lucky" Luther: [...]

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This week I've been incredibly lucky to catch up with one half of Art Department, Jonny White , ahead of their set next week at Return To The Future in Hackney, London. Lucky for you I wasn't quite the gibbering fan-girl you're probably picturing, and I managed to ask some all-important questions about being Canadian, those Swedish House Mafia comments and the recent Resident Advisor poll. So hi! Hi. [...]

• Art Department - Essential Mix (BBC Radio 1)

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ReDigi offers an internet-era version of that stand-by for lean weeks, flogging off your records. It has a service which checks that you've deleted your copy of song, allowing it to sell it to a new owner. Naturally, the RIAA feels this must be stopped, as ars technica reports: ReDigi must "quarantine any copies on its servers of our Member's sound recordings so that those recordings are not exploited in any manner," the RIAA's Jennifer L. Pariser insists. On top of that, ReDigi must erase from its website "all references to the names and [...]

Our favourite danes are in trouble. Djuma Soundsystem are rulled to pay a wopping amount of 747 182 Danish kronas (100 000 €) fine for copyright infringement. It turnes out that their signature track Les Djinns contain a ten second sample of a somewhat less known track by Atilla Engin called Turkish Showbiz. The original Atilla Engin was released back in the 1986 and the current copyright owner is by court decision entitled to 84% of Djuma Royalties. As the music industry is today, where everyone samples everyone, this sounds like a bad joke. [...]

Our favourite danes are in trouble. Djuma Soundsystem are rulled to pay a wopping amount of 747 182 Danish kronas (100 000 €) fine for copyright infringement. It turnes out that their signature track Les Djinns (2006) contain a ten second sample of a somewhat less known track by Atilla Engin called Turkish Showbiz. The original Atilla Engin was released back in the 1986 and the current copyright owner is by court decision entitled to 84% of Djuma Royalties. As the music industry is today, where everyone samples everyone, this sounds like a bad [...]

Last night I headed out to Philly's Barbary to catch one fuck of a lineup in melodic hardcore (and pop punk): Strike Anywhere, A Wilhelm Scream, The Copyrights, and One Win Choice. The place had a solid turnout for an early show, although the crowd was mostly dead (for some reason, every Strike Anywhere show in Philly is like that, very different than when I used to see them in DC).One Win

• A Wilhelm Scream - Retiring

This Thursday, September 22nd, The Copyright Society of the South is hosting one of their monthly luncheons in Nashville, TN. I have the privilege of being the featured speaker at the event, and will be addressing the topic of Copyright Issues Facing The Modern Distributor, covering various issues such as ...

So, copyright extension. Ccooopppyyyyrriiiiiigghhhtttt Eeeeexxxxtttteeeeeeeeennnsssss iiiioooooonnnnnn. It's not fun, but we're going to talk about it because it's the big music business story of the week . Actually, it's not even this week's story really. The move to extend the sound recording copyright in Europe was rubber stamped by the European Union this Monday, but we knew it was going happen last week . Basically copyright on recordings in Europe is going to be extended from 50 to 70 years - bringing it slightly closer to the 95 years enjoyed in the US - after groups lobbying for the [...]

Of course the copyright extension in recorded music has gone through. But there is one small thing we can do. We can still name it : A spokesman at one body sounded pained when I referred to the "Cliff Richard law". "Think of the hard-up session musicians not Cliff Richard," he told me, claiming that thousands of struggling artists would now be guaranteed a pension. This is, naturally, bollocks, as most hard-up session musicians are hard-up because they have their rights bought out when they make the recording. But the idea that calling [...]

You know what's hard? Keeping an eye on everywhere on the internet, to see if someone is breaching your precious, precious copyrights. What, though, if you could unleash the power of your superfans? That's what Pearl Jam appear to be doing, with The Ten Club issuing takedowns against someone who stuck up a snatch of Vedder playing live. What a great scam - you charge people $20 to join a fan club, which then gets deployed as a private copyright police force. Dave Cameron should speak to Ed and see if he can bring [...]